How to get Azure service pricing details programmatically? - azure

Question

Can anybody please tell me how can I programmatically get Azure service pricing details (pricing for Compute, Data Services , App Services, Network Services) from Azure website?
Does Azure provide the pricing details in JSON format?

Answer 1

Windows Azure does'not provide any such API as of today, although it is a much asked feature and hopefully they are working on it.
Check here:
http://feedback.windowsazure.com/forums/170030-billing/suggestions/1143971-billing-usage-api#comments
The only way for now could be to build your own data store with details mentioned here : http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Unit wise price will be mentioned in the usage data csv, but unfortunately the only way for now is to download this csv for your subscription here: https://account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions

Answer 2

Azure now provides API's to get usage and billing data. You can have a look at this blog which gives an overview of these API's and the feedback form here which contains links to some useful pages.
In summary use the following API's to get usage and billing data:
Resource usage
Resource ratecard

Answer 3

Not sure, if i am too late to answer.
I was looking for the same thing and stumble upon this post on stack overflow: Azure pricing calculator api. I was able to generate JSON string using this git hub repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/billing-dotnet-ratecard-api.
Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Late to the party but I found myself looking for this and nothing here got me what I wanted. Then I found this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cost-management/retail-prices/azure-retail-prices
It is pretty straight forward. Add the reference to the Json.NET .NET 4.0 to your project It shows up in your references as Newtonsoft.Json
//You will need to add these usings
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
private void btnGetRates_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string strUrl = "https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and skuName eq 'E64 v4' and reservationTerm eq '3 Years'";
string response = GetDataFromAPI(strUrl);
// Here is am turning the Json response into a datatable and then loading that into a DataGridView.
//You can use the Json response any way you wish
DataTable dt = Tabulate(response);
dgvAzureSKU.DataSource = null;
dgvAzureSKU.DataSource = dt;
}
public string GetDataFromAPI(string url)
{
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
{
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept", "application/json");
var response = httpClient.GetStringAsync(new Uri(url)).Result;
return response;
}
}
public static DataTable Tabulate(string json)
{
var jsonLinq = JObject.Parse(json);
// Find the first array using Linq
var srcArray = jsonLinq.Descendants().Where(d => d is JArray).First();
var trgArray = new JArray();
foreach (JObject row in srcArray.Children<JObject>())
{
var cleanRow = new JObject();
foreach (JProperty column in row.Properties())
{
if (column.Value is JValue) // Only include JValue types
{
cleanRow.Add(column.Name, column.Value);
}
}
trgArray.Add(cleanRow);
}
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataTable>(trgArray.ToString()); //This is what loads the data into the table
}

Answer 5

You can find some examples for that here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-usage-rate-card-overview. Azure provides invoice, usage and ratecard APIs which can help you to do things like:
Azure spend during the month
Set up alerts
Predict bill
Pre-consumption cost analysis